Astronomy and Astrology in al-Andalus and the Mahgrib

Abstract

Contents: Preface. Part 1 Al-Andalus: A social approximation to the history of the exact sciences in al-Andalus Maslama al-Majriti and the star table in the treatise De mensura astrolabii 7 chapters of Ibn al-Saffar's lost zij (with M. Castells) Ibn al-Zarqalluh on Mercury (with H. Mielgo) World astrology in 11th-century al-Andalus: the epistle on tasyir and the projection of rays by al-Istijji (with H.Berrani) 'Al-Biruni' in al-Andalus Ibn al-Haytham and Jabir b. Aflah's criticism of Ptolemy's determination of the parameters of Mercury. Part 2 The Maghrib: The computation of planetary longitudes in the zij of Ibn al-Banna (with E. MillA!s) Andalusian astronomy in 14th-century Fez: al-Zij al-Muwafiq of Ibn Azzuz al-Qusantini Horoscopes and history: Ibn Azzuz and his retrospective horoscopes related to the battle of El Salado (1340) An outline of the history of Maghribi zijes from the end of the 13th century Astronomical observations in the Maghrib in the 14th and 15th centuries On the lunar tables in Sanjaq Dar's Zij al-Sharif. Part 3 The Introduction of Alfonsine Astronomy in the Arab World through the Arabic Translations of Zacut's Almanach Perpetuum: Abraham Zacut and JosA(c) Vizinho's Almanach Perpetuum in Arabic (16tha 19th centuries) On the Arabic translation of the colophon of the Almanach Perpetuum In pursuit of Zacut's Almanach Perpetuum in the eastern Islamic world Addenda et corrigenda Indexes.